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Category: Intellectual Property Law

The Right of Publicity and The Right of Privacy

The Right of Publicity and The Right of Privacy

As a creative professional, your work is not just a product; it’s your intellectual property, your art, and your livelihood. Protecting your creative assets is essential, and this goes beyond copyrights and trademarks. The thing is, there’s one crucial area of the law that often gets overlooked but can make

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How to Protect Your Creative Content with Copyright Law

How to Protect Your Creative Content with Copyright Law

As an independent business owner, your original content creations are unique and an extended expression of your talent and passion. However, in the vast world of creativity, there are both admirers and those with ill intent who may try to take credit for your hard work without asking for permission.

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Copyright: An Origin Story In a Digital Era

Copyright: An Origin Story In a Digital Era

World Book & Copyright Day takes place on April 23 annually, 3 days prior to World Intellectual Property Day on April 26th.  It is worth noting that books, whether printed or digitally published, contain text which is protected under copyright. If those books also contain illustrations, those drawings are also

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When Girls Use a Masculine Name in Business

When Girls Use a Masculine Name in Business

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/ By any other name would smell as sweet.” – “Romeo and Juliet,” William Shakespeare   When Juliet utters these words to her Romeo, it is because she is questioning naming conventions. I did the same as I sat in the

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How To Protect Your Trade Secrets

How To Protect Your Trade Secrets

What Are Trade Secrets? Oxford dictionary defines trade secrets as: A secret device or technique used by a company in manufacturing its products. To dive in deeper, trade secrets are intellectual properties (IP) that include formulas, practices, processes, designs, instruments, patterns, or compilations of information that have inherent economic or

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Obscenity, Free Speech, and the Case for Banning Books

We have been following public attempts to ban books which discuss sexuality and/or gender identity, including books about the Holocaust (see Maus), in the United States over the past year. Before, efforts were focused on children, pre-K to elementary school; however now, politicians in the state of Virginia want to

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What’s In A Contract?

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. We have all heard this time and again, but does it hold water in the legal profession? In the case of Marvel comic artists, it might. Lesser known artists and writers have been speaking out in recent times as Disney

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